Author(s): Mary Hooper

Fiction - YA

In 1650, Anne Green, a young servant girl, gave birth prematurely to an illegitimate child. Sadly the baby died and poor Anne was falsely accused of infanticide. In front of a large crowd she was hanged and then carried to the College of Physicians to be dissected for medical science. But as Anne's corpse lay on the table and the doctors assembled, a strange rattle was heard in her throat. Could she still be alive? A fascinating historical novel based on the true story of a girl who cheated the hangman's noose, and lived to tell the tale.